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What are your assumptions about difficult people at work? Considering their possible motivations can change your perspective.

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Hey, y’all! If you constantly find yourself acquiescing to difficult people at work, you may be “fawning.” Here’s the deal, plus how to stop it. Fawning is an “extreme form of people-pleasing” that ...

In the workplace, appearances can carry more weight than actual productivity and performance. Some people go above and beyond to create the perception that they are successful at what they do, possess ...

Trust is a risky business, a “calculated exposure” to the behaviors and influence of another (Hancock et al., 2011). Yet, as Hobbes (1651) contended, trust is one of the essential ingredients that ...

Work is bad enough without having to deal with the inevitable encounters with negative people who sap your energy and block productivity. Research from Michigan State University shows that ...

Dear Max, At the start of virtual meetings, should I say hello to everyone? It seems to absorb a lot of time, but I don’t want to be unfriendly. Virtual calls put the hell in hello. Every greeting ...